How does Cugoano approach the topic of slavery in this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Thoughts and Sentiments.
It is therefore manifest, that something else ought yet to
be done; and what is required, is evidently the
incumbent duty of all men of enlightened
understanding, and of every man that has any claim or
affinity to the name of Christian, that the base treatment
which the African Slaves undergo, ought to be
abolished; and it is moreover evident, that the whole, or
any part of that iniquitous traffic of slavery, can no
where, or in any degree, be admitted, but among those
who must eventually resign their own claim to any
degree of sensibility and humanity, for that of
barbarians.
O by praising the many good Christians who are
slaveholders
O by claiming that enslaved people will be freed when
they become Christians
O by describing people who need to be enlightened
o by accusing supporters of slavery of being ignorant
and immoral